Design Plans Sought For Jail Addition

May 03, 1988

DU PAGE COUNTY — The Du Page County Board`s Public Safety Committee voted unanimously Monday to ask for County Board approval to advertise for an architect to design an addition of 400 beds to the 5-year-old county jail.

The addition should have the potential for being enlarged to 800 beds by the year 2010. The existing county jail, which opened in December, 1983, is at or near its 354-bed capacity, and the 78-bed work-release center that opened last summer in downtown Wheaton also is full.

The committee hopes to build a jail addition next to the existing jail, at Du Page Center on the west side of Wheaton.